''Electrocrania'' is an extinct genus of micropterigid moth. It is known from two species found in

Eocene The Eocene ( ) is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes ...

aged

Baltic amber Baltic amber or succinite is amber from the Baltic region, home of its largest known deposits. It was produced sometime during the Eocene epoch, but exactly when is controversial. It has been estimated that this forested region provided the re ...

. The genus was originally described by

Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov (; May 23, 1873 in Saint Petersburg – April 8, 1948 in Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet entomologist, paleoentomologist and physiologist, since 1910 was member of the Russian Entomological Society. Professor Kuz ...

in 1941. The genus was subsequently synonymised with '' Micropterix'', until a second species was described in 2015, which restored it as a distinct genus.

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Fossil Lepidoptera Baltic amber Fossil taxa described in 1941 Prehistoric insect genera Taxa named by Nikolai Kuznetsov (entomologist) {{paleo-Lepidoptera-stub